ABC Moderator Linsey Davis Admits: ‘Fact-checking’ Was Only Planned for Trump

[lantern2814]

Conspiracy theory

So link to all those cases where those people were prosecuted. You can't. No charges because they were all afraid of the evidence coming out.

 

[lantern2814]

What evidence are you referring to?
You say there is this 'ABC' affidavit.
Where is it?
Who offered it.?
And to whom?
What vetting was there on this document?
Filed or offered to any jurisdiction, any court?

In my opinion, poster 'struth'......you so badly WANT it to be true that Harris was given the questions beforehand....so badly that you are suspending responsible adult due diligence. You are failing. No disrespect intended.

Be better.
Be a better contributor to this venue.
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That is not the affidavit that poster 'Struth' is referencing.
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What you are objecting to are a relatively few 'fact checks' of egregious falsehoods by Don Trump.
Babies are NOT being executed in America, etc. etc.
No jurisdiction in the United States allows the execution of infants. Duh!!
To correct Trump on that falsehood does not require an opinion. The facts are clear against his allegation. And, not unimportantly, Trump offered no facts to back up his claim.

Again, Muir and Davis are not ACT exam auditors. They are journalists. It is their job as journalist to seek clarification, to question assertions that on the face appear to be deliberate falsehoods or incompetent due diligence.

America WANT our journalists to be informed, to be tenacious in their appropriate questioning, and to add context or juxtaposition to claims that are questionable.

Reported:
"The moderators stepped in four times to correct the record on the former president’s more outlandish claims during his wild showdown with Kamala Harris, including his assertion that illegal immigrants are eating pets and that Democrats support killing babies after they are born. They also flagged his claim that “crime is through the roof,” pointing out data showing violent crime has fallen.

During Tuesday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump made at least 30 false claims—and he got away with most of them, in spite of the ABC News anchors' robust fact-checking of the president in real time."

Pure bullshit from hypocritical uninformed Chillicothe. Point to struth and Chillicothe is deemed unable to provide facts or continue. Muir is a hack who embarrassed himself. No surprise to those who knew him prior to this debacle....

 

[ThisIsMe]

What evidence are you referring to?
You say there is this 'ABC' affidavit.
Where is it?
Who offered it.?
And to whom?
What vetting was there on this document?
Filed or offered to any jurisdiction, any court?

In my opinion, poster 'struth'......you so badly WANT it to be true that Harris was given the questions beforehand....so badly that you are suspending responsible adult due diligence. You are failing. No disrespect intended.

Be better.
Be a better contributor to this venue.
----------------------------------------------------------

That is not the affidavit that poster 'Struth' is referencing.
---------------------------------------------------------------


What you are objecting to are a relatively few 'fact checks' of egregious falsehoods by Don Trump.
Babies are NOT being executed in America, etc. etc.
No jurisdiction in the United States allows the execution of infants. Duh!!
To correct Trump on that falsehood does not require an opinion. The facts are clear against his allegation. And, not unimportantly, Trump offered no facts to back up his claim.

Again, Muir and Davis are not ACT exam auditors. They are journalists. It is their job as journalist to seek clarification, to question assertions that on the face appear to be deliberate falsehoods or incompetent due diligence.

America WANT our journalists to be informed, to be tenacious in their appropriate questioning, and to add context or juxtaposition to claims that are questionable.

Reported:
"The moderators stepped in four times to correct the record on the former president’s more outlandish claims during his wild showdown with Kamala Harris, including his assertion that illegal immigrants are eating pets and that Democrats support killing babies after they are born. They also flagged his claim that “crime is through the roof,” pointing out data showing violent crime has fallen.

During Tuesday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump made at least 30 false claims—and he got away with most of them, in spite of the ABC News anchors' robust fact-checking of the president in real time."

And they fact checked none of Harris claims. It was one sided.

When you are a debate moderator you are not there in the role of a journalist, you are there to be a moderator. If they want to be journalists, they can do so after the debate on their own programs, but in the debate, they are to be neutral and only do their role to guide the debate. Fact checking and interjecting your own opinion in the debate is not your job. Trump cited his example of dems post birth abortion. This is not just a claim, it’s something that the governor said.

Also, if journalism is their thing, they should have been journalists with Harris as well.

Face it, they were in the Harris camp, they were weighting the debate for her, trump was having to debate 3 people up there.

Moderators need to stay out of it, it’s not their job

 

[candycorn]

ABC News’ Linsey Davis, one of two moderators for last week’s presidential debate, admitted to the Los Angeles Times that the plan was only to fact-check former President Donald Trump, and not Vice President Kamala Harris.

Davis told the Times that ABC had deliberately targeted Trump — and only Trump — because of perceptions that he had been allowed to get away with false statements in the CNN debate against President Joe Biden in late June.

ABC Moderator Linsey Davis Admits: 'Fact-checking' Was Only Planned for Trump

ABC News' Linsey Davis admitted that the plan was only to fact-check Trump, and not Harris, because of perceptions CNN was too nice to him.

www.breitbart.com

But.... there's no bias in the media.
Why did the debate look like 3 against 1? Because it was, and they admit it.

Tell us, in factual, rational, non-partisan terms how it makes sense to only target Trump for fact checking because of the supposedly poor moderation of the prior debate.
Be sure to include the various changes of position Harris exhibited since her elevation to Dem nominee.

Never happened.

 

[Chillicothe]

Me and my avatar are advocates for 'fact-checking'. We respect and read Politi-Fact. Have even had a lunch 5 or 6 years ago with an editor there. 'Fact-checking' plays a useful role in our political zeitgeist of today.

Most especially so when Don Trump emerged from his tabloid/game-show identity to enter politics. He spews falsehoods abundantly, frequently, habitually. And none of us consumers of news can be in a position to vet each and every one of his claims (remember Glen Kessler's work at WaPo with his team's work in identifying over 30,000 'falsehoods'?).

Accordingly, when we have an opportunity to witness journalists attempt to erect factual guardrails in real time around Trump's more specious claims.....we should value it. Hence, we welcome journalists doing journalism when they are in front of Don Trump.

Which brings us to the recent debate. Trump, by several counts made between 25 to 33 false claims. 'Alternative facts' to his statements were offered about 4 times. And all rightfully so. As it would be irresponsible and a dereliction of duty if those journalist did NOT offer another perspective on murdering infants after birth, or Tabby-eating Haitians in Springfield, OH. To not offer context runs the real risk of Don Trump's most false and most corrosive allegations being normalized (again) as accepted wisdom. We cannot have that. And we all know why.

So, in the end, if Don Trump, if Kamala Harris, or their professional campaign advisors do not want important allegations 'fact-checked' then don't agree to be questioned by professional journalists. Duh!!

If they want a benign risk-free opportunity to spout whatever the hell they want......then hire professional 'auditors'. Universities use them all the time. As does the administrators of the LSAT, ACT, and likely all kinds of testing for professionals.....doctors, CPA's, and so on. (Personal note: My wife has been hired as an auditor at a local university numerous times in the past.)



ps...lastly, why the angst over Don Trump being offered context to some of his allegations, when, as he has loudly claimed...he 'won' the debate. He says it was his best ever. Which seems to me should satisfy any of his fanboys. If he is happy, they should be happy. He says he won. And he wouldn't lie to the MAGA crowd, would he?